Charity

This December, celebrate the spirit of the holidays with The Twelve Days of Christmas™ at Meadowood Napa Valley, benefitting Share Our Strength®. Beginning December 4 through 19, 2009, these exclusive holiday feasts will once again pair world-renowned chefs from across the country with twelve of Napa Valley's preeminent vintners. While creating twelve unique evenings to delight guests, all join forces in support of Share Our Strength's important work: ending childhood hunger in America by 2015.

THE ROSE BOWL -- Chegg.com, whose transformative concept of money-saving, rental access to textbooks has made it one of the Internet's fastest growing new companies and the leading online textbook rental company, set a new Guinness World Record for the world's largest cardboard box. The event took place at the UCLA versus Kansas State football game on Saturday, September 19th.

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market today announced it will bring back its popular Shop for Schools fundraising program, based on positive feedback from customers and local schools. Registered schools will be eligible to receive a $1 cash donation for every $20 spent at a local Fresh & Easy store. At the end of the program, Fresh & Easy will award the top fundraising school in each state with a $5,000 bonus.

A matching gift of $250,000 by Farmers Insurance kicks off the upcoming "Be a Hero for Babies Day" to raise funds for March of Dimes programs of research and education to help more moms have full-term pregnancies and healthy babies.

Receiving more than $80,000 from Minnesota and Wisconsin Multiple District Lions Clubs over the past years, Spring Point Project, a non profit organization developing pig donors for pancreatic islet transplantation to cure diabetes, is attending the Lions Clubs International 92nd Convention. Over 12,000 Lions delegates from more than 200 countries are expected to attend the convention July 6-10, 2009, in Minneapolis, Minn.